Quotes with constructed

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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Abdoulaye Wade Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
    Abdoulaye Wade
    Senegalese politician (1926 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Donald Trump I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in Israel. Walls work if they're properly constructed. I know how to build, believe me, I know how to build.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Barbara Kruger I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Kruger I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Angela Davis It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Andrew Taylor Still My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.
    Andrew Taylor Still
    American physician and surgeon (1828 - 1917)
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  • Alberto Giacometti Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Billy Collins The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bono The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • L. Schefer The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Charles Dickens The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Swami Brahmananda The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
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  • Mark Twain There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Albert Ellis You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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